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not be allowed to produce fruit the firfl: feafon, as it would 
tend to debilitate the plant, and prevent its progrefs in growth: 
However, when a perfon is defirous of proving the kinds, one 
bunch, with the berries well thinned, may be fuffered to re- 
main, without much injury to the plant. 
During the fummer, if the Vines meet with no impediment 
or difafler, they will make a good progrefs. Obferve, however, 
to water their roots conftantly ; and, as their fhoots make ad- 
vances, keep them regularly faflened to the rafters : Dived; 
them alfo of their wires, and alfo of their laterals whenever 
they appear : But, above all, guard well againfl infers, parti- 
cularly the Acarus, or red Spider : The rapid, though infen- 
fible depredations fometimes committed by thefe minute in- 
truders, are really aftonifhing : But I fhall have occalion to 
fpeak more fully on this head in another place. 
The Vines may be permitted to run two thirds of the length 
of the rafters, or, in general, about twenty or twenty-five feet, 
before they are flopped : And thofe, that grow remarkably 
ftrong, may be fuffered to run the whole length of the raf- 
ters, or about thirty feet. 
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When ‘the Vines were planted in the large Hot-houfe at 
Welbeck, in 1779, I permitted, by way of curiofity, a re- 
markably vigorous-growing plant, of the white Mufeat of 
Alexandria, to make a random progrefs after it had got to the 
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